Yukon Hourly to Salary Calculator 2026

Minimum wage in the Yukon

Yukon’s general minimum wage is $18.51 an hour, in effect since April 1, 2026. Since a 2021 Employment Standards Board order, the Yukon’s minimum wage rises every April 1 by the previous year’s increase in the Consumer Price Index for Whitehorse.

The April 2023 increase was the biggest of these: 6.8%, from $15.70 to $16.77, matching 2022 inflation in Whitehorse.

Workers on Government of Yukon public works contracts are paid from a separate fair wage schedule, also adjusted every April 1.

Source: Government of Yukon – Find the minimum wage in the Yukon; news releases (February 2023, January 2024, March 2025); Minimum wage fact sheet; checked October 23, 2026.

Special minimum wages

The Yukon has one minimum wage, with no separate student or liquor server rate.

Domestic workers, farm workers and guides who aren’t paid by the hour or by the piece must get at least the minimum wage for the hours they work, counting no more than eight hours a day.

Tips aren’t wages under the Employment Standards Act; your employer must pay at least the minimum wage itself.

Source: Government of Yukon – Minimum wage fact sheet (Employment Standards Act); checked October 23, 2026.

Overtime rules in the Yukon

Overtime is every hour over 8 in a day or 40 in a week. In the Yukon’s own example, a 59-hour week with three 10-hour days is 19 hours of overtime. In a week with a general holiday, overtime starts after 32 hours. You’re also entitled to two full days of rest each week. The rate is 1.5 times your regular wage.

Time off instead of pay. You and your employer can agree in writing to bank overtime as paid time off. It’s credited at the overtime rate, must be used or paid out within 12 months, and either side needs to give a month’s notice to change or end the agreement.

Averaging. An averaging agreement or a short work week agreement can change your standard hours.

Who’s different. Managers and supervisors, the employer’s family, farm workers, guides and outfitters, domestic workers hired by a household, travelling salespeople and some mineral exploration workers aren’t covered by the hours-of-work rules, but must still be paid for every hour at their regular rate.

Worked example: five 10-hour days at $25.00 an hour

That’s 50 hours in the week. Daily overtime is 5 days × 2 hours = 10 hours; weekly overtime is 50 − 40 = 10 hours. Yukon pays the larger, so 10 hours are overtime.

That’s $125.00 more than the same hours at straight time.

Source: Government of Yukon – Employment Standards Act general fact sheet; checked October 23, 2026.

If you’re sent home early in the Yukon

If you report to work as scheduled or when your employer calls you in, you must be paid for at least 2 hours at your regular rate (or the overtime rate, if it applies), even if you work less.

Example: you earn $25.00 an hour and you’re sent home after 1 hour. You’re owed $50.00: 2 hours × your own $25.00 rate, not just the $25.00 for the hour you worked.

• The director of employment standards can give an employer a variance to pay only the hours actually worked.
• You must get 8 hours off between shifts (6 with a variance), and a split shift must be finished within 12 hours of when it started.

Source: Government of Yukon – Employment Standards Act general fact sheet (Reporting Pay Order); checked October 23, 2026.

General holidays and holiday pay in the Yukon

Yukon has 11 general holidays:

• New Year’s Day
• Good Friday
• Victoria Day
• National Indigenous Peoples Day (June 21)
• Canada Day
• Discovery Day
• Labour Day
• National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
• Thanksgiving Day
• Remembrance Day
• Christmas Day

Who qualifies. You need 30 calendar days of employment before the holiday, wages earned (paid vacation counts) in the two weeks before it, and to work your scheduled shifts before and after it and the holiday itself if scheduled, unless the absence is allowed. Working the holiday needs no qualifying.

Holiday pay. On standard hours, a normal day’s earnings (salaried employees just get their salary). With fewer or irregular hours, at least 10% of your wages for the two weeks before the holiday week.

If you work the holiday, you get either

• 1.5 times your wage for the hours you work, plus general holiday pay. In the Yukon’s example, 8 hours at $20 is $240 plus $160 holiday pay; or
• your regular rate for the hours worked, plus a day off with pay, added to your vacation or taken on a day you agree on.

Heritage Day, Easter Monday and Boxing Day aren’t general holidays in the Yukon.

If you don’t work the holiday but have to work what would otherwise be a day off that week, that day is paid at overtime rates.

A union agreement, or a written agreement with a majority of employees, can move a holiday to another working day, which is then treated as the holiday.

Source: Government of Yukon – General holiday pay fact sheet (December 2025); checked October 23, 2026.

Vacation and vacation pay in the Yukon

• The Yukon’s minimum doesn’t increase with longer service.
• Vacation pay starts once you’ve been employed for 14 days in a row. Your employer must give you the vacation time within 10 months after you complete each year.
• Vacation pay is due at least one day before your vacation. A general holiday during it adds a day, plus any holiday pay you qualify for.
• If your job ends, all earned vacation pay is due within seven days.

Source: Government of Yukon – Learn about annual vacation pay and vacation time; Annual vacation pay and vacation time fact sheet; checked October 23, 2026.